A necklace of peach stones. A string of Chinese peach-stones rewritten, with appendix of Chinese lighter literature, illustrations and index

by William Arthur Cornaby

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, 1925. 8vo, pp. 8 , 401, 1 ; color frontispiece, illustrations in the text throughout; original pictorial tan cloth stamped in yellow and black, preserving the uncommon dust jacket with chips out at the top of the spine and along the top edge of the back panel, and short splits at the folds; a near fine copy in a good dust jacket. Chinese tales, anecdotes and literary references strung together on a thread of

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